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--- In AN1x-list@yahoogroups.com, Daniel Araujo <danielaraujo@f...> 
wrote:
> Hi Aaron, just got the mp3's and they sound real cool! 

  Thanks for the good word.  I spent the last year totally revamping 
the Martyr Complex sound and so far it's paying off.  We're getting 
clubplay in Berlin, Prague, Amsterdam, and London now, and radio play 
in Berlin and Prague.  Hopefully we can parlay that into European 
distribution.


> Can you tell us a word or two about where you used AnniX on them?

  On 'Consumption', pretty much all the synth sounds are from AnniX.  
This one is really guitar heavy, so we didn't need to use more than 
like 5 tracks from AnniX.  Pretty much all of the sounds we use on 
the synth are ones that I've tweaked out over the past few years.  If 
I recall, the bass was originally modified from the UberTomte sound 
about two years ago, and we ran it through a Behringer Composer Pro 
XL to thicken it up, and a Lexicon MPX100 to give it a bit more 
thump.  String sound was one of the default factory string patches 
recorded direct and then modified out the yin-yang in Sound Forge.  

  'TV Fuhrer' was one that almost never got finished.  Had it 
sequenced out for like 2 years but never found the right sound for 
it.  Spent a few weeks tweaking out some sounds on they synth and 
finally came up with the bassy raver synth at the beginning.  Funny 
thing is, when we uploaded it to the German site, it put a lot of 
distortion in it.  The original wav and mp3 tracks are totally clean, 
but I like it distorted so I never changed it.  The bass is actually 
from my Novation K-station.  The high-pitched synth on the chorus 
bits was an accident - my son was playing with the synth before we 
recorded and he had the Mod wheel turned all the way up.  Heard it 
and loved it, so we kept it.  

> I find it really cool to hear what others are doing with their 
> synths.

  I bought this synth right after it came out, and at one point I was 
literally the only person I knew who owned one.  I'm thrilled that 
such a versatile synth has finally gotten the recognition it has 
always deserved.  I still get in drunken arguments with people that 
the synth kicks major ass, even if it isn't red with wooden 
hardware  ;)



Aaron
http://www.mp3.de/martyrcomplex